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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Pearson" data-source="post: 230202" data-attributes="member: 12707">Neuvo Vallarta BirdingWe spend two weeks each November in Neuvo Vallarta.  We leave again in three weeks time and stay for 2 weeks (our 5th trip).  There is some excellent birding in the area that can be done by walking the back trails adjacent to the beach.  We stay at the Royal Decameron complex and walk into the village of Bucerias a couple of times a week, approx. 25 minutes, excellent for Humminbirds.  Walking in this areain the day time is very safe.In 2000 we went down in January and took an organized day bus trip to San Blas.  It was the trip that goes by boat to the crocodile farm - superb birding and photography from the boat.  If I managed my first upload correctly the picture of the Anhinga drying out was taken from the boat.Here is a list compiled over the last 5 years of local birding - other than the bus trip all accomplished in and around the hotel complex.American White Pelican; Allen's Hummingbird; Anhinga; Audubon's Oriole; Blue-black Grossbeak; Blue-footed Booby; Brown Pelican; Bank Swallow; Bare-throated Tiger Heron; Black Vulture; Black-chested Sparrow; Blue Ground-Dove; Boat-billed Flycatcher; Botteri's Sparrow; Brewer's Sparrow; Bronzed Cowbird; Brown Jay; Buff-bellied Hummingbird; Buff-collared Nightjar;Cattle Egret; Cave Swallow; Cerulean Warbler; Cinnamon Hummingbird; Cinnamon-bellied Flower-piercer, Common Black-Hawk; Common Ground-Dove;Common Potoo; Crimson-collared Tanager; Dusky Hummingbird; Dusky-capped Flycatcher; Giant Cowbird; Golden Eagle; Golden Vireo; Golden-cheeked Woodpecker; Grassland Yellow-Finch; Great Egret; Great Kiskadee; Great-tailed Grackle; Green Jay; Green Violet-ear; Groove-billed Ani;Heermann's Gull; Magnificent Frigatebird; Mangrove Vireo; Melodius Blackbird;Mexican Woodnymph; Neotropic (Olivaceaous) Cormorant; Northern Harrier;Orange Oriole; Orchard Oriole; Piping Plover; Plain-breasted Ground Dove; Plain-capped Starthroat; Purplish-backed Jay; Roadside Hawk; Royal Tern;Ruddy Ground-Dove; Ruddy-breasted Seedeater; Rufescent (Lineated) Tiger Heron; Rufous Hummingbird; Rufous-collared Sparrow; Rufous-crowned Sparrow; Rufous-sided Towhee (Spotted); Rufous-winged Sparrow;San Blas Jay; Sanderling; Short-tailed Hawk; Sierra Madre Sparrow; Snowy Egret; Snowy Plover; Social Flycatcher; Streak-backed Oriole; Stripe-headed Sparrow; Thick-billed Kingbird; Tree Swallow; Tropical Kingbird; Tropical Peewee; Turkey Vulture; Vaux's Swift; Vermilion Flycatcher; Violet-crowned Hummingbird; White-collared Seadeater (Cinnamon Rump); White-naped Brush-Finch; Willet; Wilson's Warbler; Yellow Warbler; Yellow-backed Oriole;Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet; Yellow-winged Cacique.The books I use are:Mexican Birds (Peterson)The Birds Of Mexico and Adjacent Areas (Ernest Preston Edwards)A Bird Finding Guide to Mexico (Steve Howell)A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America (Steve Howell &  Sophie Webb)We manage 8 - 10 new species each year but for once I put birding secondary to relaxation, etc.Hope this helps,Mike</blockquote>

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